Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9794, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Southwick

Petition subject: Against the resolutions to suppress abolitionist societies and publications Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857830 Date of creation: 1836-03-04 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joshua T. Everett, Princeton; committee on so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the Abolition of Slavery Selected signatures:Joseph SouthwickSamuel J. MayWilliam Lloyd GarrisonAmos FarnsworthDrury FairbanksHenry Grafton ChapmanSylvanus BrownIsaac KnappSamuel E. SewallEllis Gray Loring Actions taken on dates: 1836-03-05,1836-03-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1836 and referred to the committee on so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the Abolition of Slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 5, 1836 and concurred Total signatures: 10 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, citizens, president, secretary, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: liberty of the press, constitution, security of freedom, remonstrance, right to assemble Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9794 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.